FW: Interview with Noam Chomsky by Radio B92, Belgrade

[Kirsten Neilsen]

earlier i posted a query about chomsky's statement that "The U.S. has
already demanded that Pakistan terminate the food and other supplies
that are keeping at least some of the starving and suffering people of
Afghanistan alive." i also asked him this question.

he responded:


>> Check John Burns, from Islamabad, New York Times, Sept. 16.  About
>> half way through is the following sentence:


>> Washington has also demanded a cutoff of fuel supplies, an end to
>> the use of Pakistani banks as conduits for clandestine money
>> movements by terrorists and the elimination of truck convoys that
>> provide much of the food and other supplies to Afghanistan's
>> civilian population.

http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/09/16/international/asia/16PAKI.html

i also found this article (dated 9/18) in a more recent search:

PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS BUILDS
http://www.globalinfo.org/eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=9510

"The clearance and all transportation of food, other consumer goods and
equipment imported by Afghan traders from abroad or Pakistan has been
suspended with the immediate effect," said an official of the Central
Bureau of Revenues, which supervises the Afghan Transit Trade Scheme
under which Pakistan gives duty-free passage to all goods destined for
Afghanistan.

"From (yesterday) onwards, all Afghanistan-bound shipments remain
suspended until further orders," he added.

so, question answered (thanks also to info from Charles Jannuzi)